revived in 18th century, 277;
sequences, 273;
"Ten Commandments" of, 268 n.

Sonnets on the sonnet, 278, 279, 284, 288.

Sound-qualities of verse made expressive of sense, 135-137.

Southey: Curse of Kehama, 329;
hexameters of, 347 f.;
Sapphics, 337*;
Vision of Judgment, 347*.

Spanish verse, 28, 115;
assonance in, 114.

Spedding, J., on English hexameter, 351.

Spenser: Amoretti, 293*;
Faerie Queene, 102*;
free cesura in, 17;
interest in classical metres, 332 f.;
Mother Hubbard's Tale, 181*;
Shepherd's Calendar, 15*, 89*, 158 f.*, 179 f.*;
Tetrasticon, 332*;
tumbling verse of, 159;
unrimed sonnets of, 219;
Virgil's Gnat, 98 f.*.

Spenserian sonnet, 293*.

Spenserian stanza, 102-106;
stanzas influenced by, 107 f.

Spondee, 56, 57.

Stanyhurst, R.: Æneid, 341 f.*;
hexameters of, 342 f.

Stanzas, 62-112;
complex forms of, under French influence, 110;
formed by refrains, 78;
how determined and described, 62;
tail-rime, 80-86.

Stedman, E. C., on rhythm in poetry, 432 f.

Stengel, on French alexandrine, 252;
on French decasyllabic verse, 177 f.;
on octosyllabic verse, 160.

Stetson, C. P.: A Man Must Live, 375 f.*.

Stevenson, R. L., on tone-color, 138.

Stichic verse, 62.

Stillingfleet, B., sonnets of, 277.

Stond wel, moder, 84*.

Stone, W. J.: Odyssey, 356*;
on quantity in English verse, 356 f.

Stress (see Accent).

Substitution of feet, 55-61.

Suckling: A Soldier, 86*.

Suete iesu, king of blysse, 69*.

Surrey, Earl of, accents in verse of, 10;
Æneid, 215 f.*;
How no Age is Content, 266*;
inventor of English sonnet, 290;
Psalm LV., 255*;
Restless State of a Lover, 71*;
Sonnet, 290*;
verse of, 216.

Swift: Death of Dr. Swift, 169 f.*.

Swinburne: Armada, 51*, 134*;
Atalanta in Calydon, 9*, 146*;
Ballad of François Villon, 367*;
Birds, 45*;
Century of Roundels, 42*;
Choriambics, 340*;
Death of Wagner, 60*;
Garden of Cymodoce, 43*;
Hendecasyllabics, 338;
Hesperia, 44*;
Last Oracle, 43*;
Laus Veneris, 78*;
Leper, 9*;
March, 13*, 48*;
Night in Guernsey, 47*;
on choral ode of Milton, 325;
on English hexameters, 353 f.;
on sonnets of Wordsworth, 280;
On the Cliffs, 329;
on Whitman, 431 n.;
Roundel, 376*;
Sapphics, 340*;
Seaboard, 51*;
Song in Season, 28*;
Thalassius, 329;
Tristram of Lyonesse, 212*;
Winter in Northumberland, 130 f.*, 147*.

Syllable-counting, in Surrey's verse, 216;
want of, in early English verse, 16, 112, 151.

Syllables, artificially varied in length when in metre, 401-404;
kinds of accented, 3.

Symonds, J. A., on blank verse, 214, 232, 233;
of 18th century, 239;
of Gorboduc, 217;
of Jonson, 225;
of Keats, 242;
of Marlowe, 220 f.;
of Shakspere, 222;
of Tennyson, 246;
of Webster, 229;
on heroic verse of the romantic poets, 210;
Sonnets on the Thought of Death, 287 f.*.


Tailed sonnet, 276.

Tail-rime (see Rime couée).

Taylor, B.: Home Pastorals, 349*;
National Ode, 320 f.*.

Taylor, W., on German and English hexameters, 345;
Ossian's Hymn to the Sun, 344 f.*.

Ten Brink, on Anglo-Saxon verse, 151 f.;
on Chaucer's verse, 177, 178;
on early five-stress verse, 175;
on verse of court romances, 164 f.;
on verse of King Horn, 155.

Tennyson: Alcaics on Milton, 337*;
blank verse of, 246;
Boadicea, 339;
Break, break, break, 21*;
Charge of the Light Brigade, 30*;
Coming of Arthur, 143;
Daisy, 77;
elegiac distich of, 346*;
Enoch Arden, 58*, 59*, 144*;
Geraint and Enid, 59*;
Hendecasyllabics, 337 f.*;
In Memoriam, 75 f.*;
Locksley Hall, 13*, 46 f.*;
Lotos-Eaters, 106*;
Maud, 32*, 42*, 43*, 52*, 317;
Merlin and Vivien, 58*;
Montenegro, 285 f.*;
Northern Farmer, 44*;
Œnone, 59*;
on English hexameters, 353;
on quantity in English, 338;
Oriana, 80*;
Palace of Art, 74*;
Passing of Arthur, 244*;
Princess, 8*, 58*, 134*, 144 f.*, 245*, 246*;
Queen Mary, 245*;
Sapphics, 339*;
sonnets of, 286;
Tears, Idle Tears, 246*;
To Maurice, 77*;
Two Voices, 64*;
Vision of Sin, 41*, 54 f.*;
Wellington Ode, 315 f.*.

Tercets, 63-69.

Terminology, classical in English verse, 24 n., 406-409.

Terza rima, 65-69.

Thackeray, irregular verse in ballads of, 158 n.;
Sorrows of Werther, 47*;
What Makes my Heart, etc., 132*.

Thomson, as imitator of Spenser's verse, 104;
Castle of Indolence, 103*, 143*;
Seasons, 237 f.*.

Thomson, J.: City of Dreadful Night, 95*.

Tillbrook, S., on Southey's hexameters, 347 n.

Time-element in English verse, 391-409.

Time-intervals, 11-23;
irregular, 13-16;
regular, 12 f.;
the basis of metrical feet, 408.

Todhunter, on Shelley's verse, 106.

Tolomei, C., 331.

Tomlinson, on the sonnet, 267 f.

Tone-color, 135-147.

Tone-quality, 113-147.

Tottel: Songs and Sonnets, 10, 87*, 98*, 218, 266*, 271*, 290*, 372.

Trial before Pilate (Mystery Play), 157*.

Triggs, on verse of De Muliere Samaritana, 253 f.

Triolet, 381-383.

Triple endings in Elizabethan drama, 226-228.

Triplet, used in heroic verse, 195, 208.

Trissino, G., 214, 330.

Trochaic verse, two-stress, 27 f.;
three-stress, 33 f.;
four-stress, 37 f.;
five-stress, 41;
six-stress, 43;
seven-stress, 45, 259;
eight-stress, 46 f.

Trochee, 24;
substituted for iambus, 57 f.

Troy Book, 156.

Truncation, 25, 33.

"Tumbling verse," 157 f., 159;
relation to decasyllabic, 179 f.

Turberville: Heroical Epistles, 219.


Udall, N.: Ralph Roister Doister, 14*.


Van Dyke, H., on Tennyson's Wellington Ode, 317.

Variety in verse, significant, 61.

Vers baïfins, 331.

Vers de société, 39, 365.

Versi sciolti, 214, 330 f.

Villanelle, 376-380.

Villon, 358, 363, 365, 367, 374.

Virelai, 385.

Voiture, 358, 371;
Rondeau, 371*.

Vowels, long and short in English, 396 f.


Wace, Brut, 160*.

Waddington: Manuel des Pechiez, 163 n.*.

Waller: Battle of the Summer Islands, 187*;
Go, Lovely Rose, 89*;
influence on heroic couplet, 187-190;
Of the Danger of his Majesty, etc., 186*.

Ward, on verse of Cowper, 240.

Warner, W.: Albion's England, 261*.

Warton brothers, revivers of sonnet, 277.

Warton, T., on verse of Joseph Hall, 182;
Sonnet on Dugdale's Monasticon, 276 f.*.

Watson (of Cambridge), distich of, 341*.

Watson, T.: Tears of Fancy, 273.

Watson, W.: Hymn to the Sea, 355*;
Sonnet on History, 297*;
Sonnet to the Sultan, 289*.

Watts, T., on verse-form in poetry, 426 f.;
Sonnet's Voice, 288*.

Wayle whyte, A, 86*.

Webbe, W.: Discourse of English Poetrie cited, 46, 334, 341, 344;
Eclogue of Vergil, 344*;
Sapphics, 333*.

Webster: Duchess of Malfi, 228*.

Wendell, B., on Shakspere's verse, 223 f.

White, G., on chant royal, 368;
on French lyrical forms, 359 f.

White, J. B.: Sonnet to Night, 281*.

Whitman, W., verse of, 431.

Wood, H., on the heroic couplet, 189 f.

Woodberry, on the heroic couplet, 207.

Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality (ode), 312 f.*;
I wandered lonely, 92*;
Norman Boy, 264*;
on blank verse, 232;
on theory of metre, 417-420;
Peter Bell, 91*;
Pet Lamb, 257*;
Scorn not the Sonnet, 279*;
Solitary Reaper, 97 f.*;
Sonnet, The, 278 f.*;
sonnets of, 278, 280;
The World is too much with us, 279 f.*;
Tintern Abbey, 243*;
White Doe of Rylstone, 171 f*.

Wyatt, accents in verse of, 10 f.;
How to use the court, 65*;
Of his love that pricked his finger, 98*;
O goodly hand, 87*;
ottava rima introduced by, 98;
Power of Love, 96*;
Rondeau, 372*;
Sonnet, 271*;
sonnet introduced by, 272;
text of poems of, 10 f.;
The joy so short, 20*;
Torment of the Unhappy Lover, 101 f.*;
unaccented rime in, 122 n.


Young: Night Thoughts, 238;
Ocean, 87 f.*;
stanza of odes of, 88.